[mythtv-users] OT: RAID6?

[John Drescher]

>
> But the parity is distributed across all drives for both RAID5 and
> RAID6. So if you're reading more than one block RAID6 can be faster.
> For instance, if you are reading 6 blocks, with RAID 6 they may all be
> on different drives and so able to be read simultaneously. With RAID 5
> at least one drive must hold two of the blocks.



Ok, I agree with that and see your point. Thanks for teh explanation.

I guess one more reason for me to keep using raid6. I actually have > 7TB at
work on software raid6 using lots of 320 GB Seagate 7200.10 sata2 disks and
250 GB WDC sata1 disks...


John
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